Hey all, Shald here. So here's the deal: Steam allows you to submit your game for additional rounds of advertising and marketing visibility, but only within 30 days of a recent major update. Guess what we didn't know about when we first started developing this game? :D That's right, we didn't know ANY of that! So, yes. This announcement is a duplicate of an older announcement so we can properly categorize Women of Xal's 1.5 update as a "Major Update" and therefore get the game on the front page of Steam for a few weeks. :') Rest assured that we're not going to be re-hashing old content forever; now that we know about the additional visibility rounds, we'll definitely use them properly going forward. As for what we still have planned for this game, here's a quick list: - Continue the story in WoX 2 - Steam Achievements Here are the original 1.5 patch notes from March 24, 2022. ================================================= Some of ya'll went deep to find those visual glitches, and we've got you! Visual glitches have been taken out, and a slew of sneaky typos have been nixed. Because of how easy this was, we were able to focus on new features!

• Streamer Mode! On every run except True Ending, you can skip the first 3 or so hours to get to the more general audience appropriate parts of the plot, with the slow burn being summed up in cheeky little sentences. You should be able to start character routes sooner than later if you go with Streamer Mode. If you decide to choose "Explorer Mode" for the slow burn and learn more about the world and its characters, the game proceeds as normal.
• New OC for Most of You! A fan's character has entered the world of Xal! You'll see her right at the very start of the game. We hope you enjoy Piaxa. She's adorable. Thank you for your support!
• Alt dialogue for a few scenes Xanamae. No matter the mode, had her dialogue shortened even more. This time only partly because of how wordy she is! This time, it's because Hilde covers her lore drop.
• Hilde Covers Humans Lying. You're potentially introduced to Furnell early as Hilde's first mandatory lecture now focuses on the ability to lie, and not organs or anything else. Consequently, the lecture is far shorter.

Some folks couldn't get ruthless points on their runs. I have fixed it and released the bugs to the sky above.

And by same page, I mean the dev build was different from public build where we thought certain significant lore details were in every timeline. It wasn't! Bugs like spelling mistakes, grammar derps, and some inconsequential structuring fixed up. Lastly, Steam's build now has one unified build between PC and Mac, so there should be less steps to get them both working for future updates.

Some of ya'll went deep to find those visual glitches, and we've got you! Visual glitches have been taken out, and a slew of sneaky typos have been nixed. Because of how easy this was, we were able to focus on new features!

• Streamer Mode! On every run except True Ending, you can skip the first 3 or so hours to get to the more general audience appropriate parts of the plot, with the slow burn being summed up in cheeky little sentences. You should be able to start character routes sooner than later if you go with Streamer Mode. If you decide to choose "Explorer Mode" for the slow burn and learn more about the world and its characters, the game proceeds as normal.
• New OC for Most of You! A fan's character has entered the world of Xal! You'll see her right at the very start of the game. We hope you enjoy Piaxa. She's adorable. Thank you for your support!
• Alt dialogue for a few scenes Xanamae. No matter the mode, had her dialogue shortened even more. This time only partly because of how wordy she is! This time, it's because Hilde covers her lore drop.
• Hilde Covers Humans Lying. You're potentially introduced to Furnell early as Hilde's first mandatory lecture now focuses on the ability to lie, and not organs or anything else. Consequently, the lecture is far shorter.

Some quality of life updates, as well as some nerfs and buffs!

• A slew of obscure and not so obscure typos have been taken care of.
• Some narrative clarifications to reduce vagueness in some instances.
• You now have to complete the game before you fall asleep in front of someone.
• Furnell's route is now easier to unlock.
• Culiver is no longer a magical girl on his route.
• We celebrate not having to update the game for well over a week. \o/
• Sleep resumes.

More annoying bugs have been taken care of. Comes out, we couldn't predict every single combination a player could undergo!

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• Small visual bug fixes for PC
• Prevented several obscure bugs from happening
• CG glitch for one of the endings has been fixed in the gallery

About page now keeps up with the updates with version numbers. More small bug fixes.

Nothing big, just a few little touch ups: -Stopped two obscure crash locations -Fixed a typo -Fixed an accidental story skip jump for certain playthroughs. -Fixed a graphical glitch

Women of Xal, 4 years later. It's finally released. And now, for the update that separates Early Access from the full version! Release Notes:

• The game's front page now better fits the kind of vibe Women of Xal offers.
• Sound Effects added
• Over 20 new tracks
• Some events have new/changed music
• Several new events and activities
• A skip animation feature
• New screens for loading the game
• New animations
• Nerfed Reduced the requirement for unlocking certain routes
• True Ending has changed credits/video
• We let go of some lore secrets that we held deep in our hearts
• ^ More clues about the lore and the story/characters have also been released
• Added Calendar UI.
• Added Axay and Merixa's Arcs. All arcs are now available in-game.
• Added Date Days near the end of the game.
• Finished CG Gallery.
• Added Character Descriptions to the Character Galleries
• Finished Libraries.
• Added at least 1 alt outfit for everyone. Most alt outfits are now in the game, or at least viewable after completing a character's arc.
• Fixed typos.
• Fixed a tense (past/present) issue in the first few lines of the game.
• Fixed a bug that caused character arcs to still be clickable after their completion.
• Fixed a bug that caused a failsafe to trigger after certain character arcs due to the day tag not being properly represented in-game.
• Removed one day of Culiver's Arc where nothing in particular happened, which was originally just padding.
• Removed multiple relic variables that did nothing anymore
• Improved some backend coding to make the game load faster.
• Set up the build so patches can happen quicker and easier.
• Walkthrough isn't here, because we're opting to nap. We want to nap. See you in Napville.

Players and ourselves caught some interesting errors. We killed the errors. -Velvet's route is actually playable now, like it was supposed to be in 2.5 -Artimis' route was accidentally deleted in 2.5. It's back in now. -New CG added for True Ending. -Slight video editing update -New music for True Ending -Fixed minor dialogue annoyances, sprite displacements, and an eternal loop. -Slightly reduced the size of the game, with more optimization coming in future updates.

Women of Xal Patch Notes:

• Fixed several typos, including some sneaky game breaking ones
• Fixed some dialogue (I nitpicked)
• Added 3 additional endings, including True Ending
• Lizs Arc Available
• Velvets Arc Available! Velvets Arc Available!
• New Animations
• New CGs
• New Voice Acting
• Overhauled UI
• New Music
• More library books available!
• Made it slightly easier to unlock Artimis Route
• Additional small tweaks

Whats not going in 2.5:

• Last 3 CGs
• Last Animation
• Sound effects
• Merixas Arc
• Axays Arc
• The final UI look
• Romantic Dates
• Romantic CGs from dates
• The last bit of the library

In the New Update:

• New Animation Videos (Clanice Arc, Nojuk, extra Xuna animation)
• New Opening movie when you click new game
• Music now in all animations
• All Videos come with subtitles
• New CGs
• Stats can be maxed out and shows it in the stat screen!
• Naxia gets her last expression
• Launda's intro scene added (Non-Animated)
• Several bug fixes and typo corrections
• Art resizing for some images. (Example: University)
• Deeper colors for the stat menu
• Xanamae doesn't talk as much.
• The political track "Tensenight" or "Political Cloud" is louder now
• Less unintentional vague sentences
• Grandma Vicia's official voice actress is now the same one for all cutscenes
• Seizure warning added

Future Updates

• More animations
• Overhauled UI, text, and stat screen.
• The remaining bugs (the non-crashing ones)
• More endings and arcs finally added
• More music
• More sound effects
• Quality of life lore/story details for all playthroughs
• 2017 writing gets a [stronger] facelift (See: Xanamae)

-Stops the crashing after the interaction between Velvet and Xula in regards to Xaris. -Removed some typos and redundant dialogue

• Join Xjena on a 10 hour story with countless branching paths and ways to complete each individual day. No two playthroughs are the same, and your friends may have very different experiences with the characters than you do!
  
  
  • Choices are not binary, and one good deed does not wash out the bad, nor the bad the good.
    
  • Who let me be in charge of how many choices you get in this game? Apparently there's over 600 menu choices?
    
  • Xjena has just as much a personality as you, so she interacts with the world not as a silent protagonist, but a woman with plenty agency.
    
  • The world and its characters will not revolve around Xjena or her schedule. It's up to the player to be involved in their lives.
    
  • The game engine said there's over 200,000 words. But let's say there's 75k and assume 125k of that is from coding branching paths, probably.
    
  • Reading is good for you anyways.
    
  • The writer for this description page is also the head and main writer for the game's script. This is either a bane or a boon, depending on the reader.
  
  
  
• Decipher a tricky high fantasy political mystery that mixes replayability, lore, and clear answers in a way unique to the genre.
  
• The mystery is tricky, but quite fair! And the more you piece together, the more the world around Xjena makes sense!
  
• An easily digestible lore that allows you to choose between an abundance of information vs keeping things strictly story/character driven.
  
  
  
• In a stunt we'll probably, hopefully never do again, you can date/befriend 12 full “Romance/Friend” routes that are NOT blocked!
  
• That means you can romance multiple people in one playthrough without worrying about being locked out from someone. Why?
  
• Because romanceable characters interact with each other due to an incredibly intricate affection system that allows and encourage polyamorous options.
  
• ^ End me.
  
• Romance options can turn into enemy options for certain playthroughs... and it can uh, Go Places. Like one of them killing Xjena real early.
  
• 140 minute soundtrack with familiar Jazzy vibes, niche ambiance and synth-heavy tracks, and genres I'm pretty sure the composer (see: me) made up.
  
• Over 100 special illustrations for important scenes and romantic/platonic moments. See the 4th bullet point for this segment.
  
• 4 different endings with a mind-numbingly long list of ways to reach them.
  
• Your choices being referenced and rewarded/punished more times than you can count. More times than we can count too, if we're being brutally honest.

• OS: Ubuntu 16.04+
• Processor: 2.0 GHz Core 2 DuoMemory: 2 GB RAM
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 2.0
• Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: This game is supported on Linux through Proton.